100 artists that would figure high in any rockist canon, and yet are also generally loved and much discussed by ILM

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1. Velvet Underground

Paul McCartney and Mick Jagger, Thursday, 27 January 2005 17:45 (nineteen years ago) link

2. Jandek

amanda lear (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 27 January 2005 17:47 (nineteen years ago) link

3. Dave Matthews Band

Huk-L, Thursday, 27 January 2005 17:47 (nineteen years ago) link

4.your mom

Masked Gazza, Thursday, 27 January 2005 17:48 (nineteen years ago) link

5 black sabbath

peter smith (plsmith), Thursday, 27 January 2005 17:54 (nineteen years ago) link

6 Prince

Jedmond (Jedmond), Thursday, 27 January 2005 17:55 (nineteen years ago) link

6 beach boys
7 nirvana
8 beatles
9 rolling stones
10 kinks
11 prince
12 magma
13 ramones

peter smith (plsmith), Thursday, 27 January 2005 17:56 (nineteen years ago) link

14. Captain Beefheart
15. David Bowie

Doobie Keebler (Charles McCain), Thursday, 27 January 2005 17:57 (nineteen years ago) link

16 MBV
17 Joy Division
18 The Fall

thank god i ain't too cool for the safe belt (smile), Thursday, 27 January 2005 17:59 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh, the irony?

Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 27 January 2005 18:05 (nineteen years ago) link

Me?

Paul Simon, Thursday, 27 January 2005 18:29 (nineteen years ago) link

ILM is increasingly self-referential these days

marco van basten, Thursday, 27 January 2005 19:17 (nineteen years ago) link

how post-modern of us

Nic de Teardrop (Nicholas), Friday, 28 January 2005 02:37 (nineteen years ago) link

19. David Sylvian

Jacob (Jacob), Friday, 28 January 2005 09:26 (nineteen years ago) link

20. Visage

Miles Finch, Friday, 28 January 2005 10:26 (nineteen years ago) link

21. Gunther von Hagens

Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 28 January 2005 10:27 (nineteen years ago) link

22 james brown
23 public enemy

J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 28 January 2005 10:38 (nineteen years ago) link

24. The Stooges

Seuss, Friday, 28 January 2005 10:52 (nineteen years ago) link

25. Burzum

PiersT, Friday, 28 January 2005 13:48 (nineteen years ago) link

28. Public Image Limited. I say so.

mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 28 January 2005 13:52 (nineteen years ago) link

12 magma

I wish, but I really doubt it.

#3, however, is totally OTM.

David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 28 January 2005 14:14 (nineteen years ago) link

29. The Byrds
30. Big Star

I like Jandek but I am not sure if he's in any rockist canon...is he?

es hurt (ddduncan), Friday, 28 January 2005 18:21 (nineteen years ago) link

two years pass...

Wait, no one said Steely Dan?

jaymc, Friday, 28 September 2007 18:58 (sixteen years ago) link

#4 was probably a gag answer and yet the list still kept going! You'd think they would have ignored it and used the numeral 4 for the next real answer, but it wasn't to be...

Rev. Hoodoo, Friday, 28 September 2007 19:06 (sixteen years ago) link

Led Zeppelin?

Trip Maker, Friday, 28 September 2007 19:33 (sixteen years ago) link

Alice Cooper maybe

M@tt He1ges0n, Friday, 28 September 2007 19:37 (sixteen years ago) link

I would rather like to as: Is there an act that figures high in most rocklist canons that is not loved by a lot of ILM'ers?

Geir Hongro, Friday, 28 September 2007 19:57 (sixteen years ago) link

I like Jandek but I am not sure if he's in any rockist canon...is he?

Neither are Burzum nor Magna.

Geir Hongro, Friday, 28 September 2007 19:58 (sixteen years ago) link

I would rather like to as: Is there an act that figures high in most rocklist canons that is not loved by a lot of ILM'ers?

Well, rule #1 is that there are always some ILMers who will like something, no matter how obscure or disliked it is elsewhere.

Are there artists that are loved by the "rock canon" and yet get a lot less love on ILM? Surely Dylan, Springsteen, 60s San Fran scene, etc.

Cunga, Friday, 28 September 2007 20:21 (sixteen years ago) link

"Neither are Burzum nor Magna."

Magna's on the No Copyeditors Rock 100 list.

I eat cannibals, Friday, 28 September 2007 20:28 (sixteen years ago) link

Are there artists that are loved by the "rock canon" and yet get a lot less love on ILM?

U2 meet a lot of hatred here.

Geir Hongro, Friday, 28 September 2007 21:17 (sixteen years ago) link

I'm seeing mostly differing ideas of what the rockist canon is. (Not to mention "rocklist canon" and "rock canon") Or maybe some of these are jokes I'm not getting...

Rich Smörgasbord, Friday, 28 September 2007 22:57 (sixteen years ago) link

Prince is probably more popist, right?

kingkongvsgodzilla, Friday, 28 September 2007 23:46 (sixteen years ago) link

<i>#4 was probably a gag answer and yet the list still kept going!</i>

I assume the repetition of #6 was meant to slight your mom's place in the rockist canon, not Prince's.

musically, Friday, 28 September 2007 23:49 (sixteen years ago) link

Talking Heads

stephen, Saturday, 29 September 2007 00:34 (sixteen years ago) link

Talking Heads? See, now they're too apollonian to be called rockist.

Rich Smörgasbord, Saturday, 29 September 2007 00:52 (sixteen years ago) link

Shed Seven

max r, Saturday, 29 September 2007 00:52 (sixteen years ago) link

LOL. Shed Seven don't belong in either the rockist canon nor the ILM one. :)

Geir Hongro, Saturday, 29 September 2007 16:13 (sixteen years ago) link

i think it is pretty clear that shed seven are one of the most critically acclaimed bands of all time: hugely influencial, massive fanbase, innovative, sexy, glamourous, intelligent... how can you not worship them?

max r, Saturday, 29 September 2007 17:29 (sixteen years ago) link


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